skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Tomahawk was deployed with nuclear warheads, in several variants, between 1983–2010 or 2013 [0]. As far as I can tell, only the ground-launched variants were consistently advertised as non-nuclear, and that was to comply with the bilateral treaty obligations of the INF [1]—and there was a ground-launched nuclear Tomahawk, too [2], which was destroyed in 1991 when the INF treaty came into effect.

I don't think that there was ever a *unilateral* US aversion to these things. We've fielded large numbers [3] of nuclear-warhead cruise missiles—air-, sea-, and ground-launched, spanning much of the Cold war. We're currently developing a new one right now [4].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_(missile_family)#Vari...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_For...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-109G_Gryphon

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nuclear_cruise_missil... ("Category: Nuclear cruise missiles of the United States")

[4] https://news.usni.org/2024/06/06/report-to-congress-to-on-nu... ("Report to Congress on Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile")
Hmm I was initially on the side of “everyone should have free passage through forest”, but “anyone can shoot your animals unless you re-post hundreds of signs per year” doesn’t seem like the right balance to arrive at either.
I had not heard the term 'freebasing AI' before. Here is an explanation:
Freebasing: The AI First Amendment https://mirror.xyz/jyu.eth/XazNup86z8enRefsEpAz4amKAvlVlLMKV...
Should replace it with head cheese: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=687
Why is it that LLMs are ‘stochastic’, shouldn’t the same input lead to the same output? Is the LLM somehow modifying itself in production? Or is it just flipping bits caused by cosmic radiation?
so maybe you want less mistakes?
Mary in that thought experiment is not an LLM that has learned via text. She's acquired "all the physical information there is to obtain about what goes on when we see ripe tomatoes". This does not actually describe modern LLMs. It actually better describes a robot that has transcribed the location, temperature, and velocity of water drops from a hot shower to its memory. Again, this thought experiment has its own quirks.

Also, it is an argument against physicalism, which I have no interest in debating. While it's tangentially related, my point is not for/against physicalism.

My argument is about modern AI and it's ability to learn. If we put touch sensors, eyes, nose, a mechanism to collect physical data (legs) and even sex organs on an AI system, then it is more generally intelligent than before. It will have learned in a better fashion what a hot shower feels like and will be smarter for it.
A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a Chinese espionage campaign: WH
I think they are more confident that most of the people in society believe in the same hubris. They can all point to some class of people that are lower than them. Don’t underestimate the power of that kind of motivation on the masses.

The classes of people on the bottom are usually not numerous nor educated enough to cause a real issue. And if you get really lucky, the hierarchy is somewhat based in ethnicity. People will fight vehemently to support such structures.

Taking advantage of these sorts of motivations has worked to organize and control human societies for millennia. There is absolutely no reason for elites to think it will fail now.
A company wants to do action x.

"If x leads to legal issue y, how much could it cost us?"

"If x leads to reputational issue z, how much could it cost us?"

-- that's my guess for the two things that matter when a company considers an action. Aside from, of course, how much money or resources the action would bring to the table in the first place, which is the primary concern (legally, culturally, etc).

People who work in this and related and indeed any industry - am I off the mark? If so, how? Look forward to any clarifications or updates to this heuristic I'm proposing.
>We all know what's going on.

I am not entirely sure about this. Before 2012, may be. Somewhere along the line 2012 - 2022 it was all about doing something Good for the world. And "we want to make lots of money" isn't part of that equation. Now the pendulum may be swinging back but it only just started.

Nice point of reference may be Sequoia profile of Sam Bankman-Fried.
If they're insolvent, depending on who they're using for their infrastructure their systems and services may have literally been turned off on them.
I agree, not a great first impression. I have several questions before we jump to another provider especially an untested one.
Technically yes they can run functions. There were experiments of Claude used to run a robot around a house. So technically, we are not far at all and current models may even be able to do it.
“One could offer so many examples of such categorical prophecies being quickly refuted by experience! In fact, this type of negative prediction is repeated so frequently that one might ask if it is not prompted by the very proximity of the discovery that one solemnly proclaims will never take place. In every period, any important discovery will threaten some organization of knowledge.”
René Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, p. 4
This is an example of ellipsis, a common feature in informal English and news headlines.

It's also an example of pragmatics, specifically a conversational implicature, where the omission is forcing the reader to rely on the context of the sentence to fill in the blank or derive the meaning.

So while you are correct about the grammar, language use is often more complicated in practice.
Wildly hallucinating agents being treated as oracles is a human tradition.
I wouldn't either. Whistleblowers are getting the short of the barrel lately.
"There's no such thing as bad publicity."

"Hold my beer."
Sure, the recognition step is fairly simplistic.

It's not inconceivable, however, that the system connects to whatever other dossier(s) have been built against my identity. Even before we consider ML facial recognition by public cameras (probably not yet possible at scale?), the Singaporean SIM card I bought was connected to my passport, which gives them my location: both absolute and relative to anyone I might have spent time around.

I mean, I was a normal tourist, and not doing anything shady whilst I was there, but... False positives exist, and I wouldn't have wanted to have been pulled out of the queue for questioning about something I couldn't possibly have explained.

Singaporeans seem to have a different point of view about surveillance, however. Even the (fairly low-key) human rights activist I chatted with thought it was all great, and said something along the lines of "the cameras keep us safe". "Privacy" as we tend to think about it on this board may be a mainly Anglo-Saxon concern, for what that's worth.
> an optimising agent that does the optimising faster than we do

I still don't understand this. What does it mean in practice?
They probabilistically choose an output. Check out 3b1b's series on LLMs for a better understanding!
I don't really get where you're coming from..

Is your point that the capabilities of these models have grown such that 'merely' calling it a neural network doesn't fit the capabilities?

Or is your point that these models are called neural networks even though biological neural networks are much more complex and so we should use a different term to differentiate the simulated from the biological ?
People whistleblow for many reasons, but sometimes those reasons are disordered thinking, conspiratorial mindsets, etc, which are probably comorbid with suicidal thoughts.
maybe

I get your point, but there's an important difference between "I don't know what they are" and "they don't exist".
I guess we'll see in a few weeks. Kazakhstan is not Russia, and as far as I can tell access to the site of the crash is being given to the involved parties, including Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan says the cause was "external technical influence", whatever that means. And in any case, there are plenty of survivors, and, therefore, direct witnesses.
It would be nice if everyone that held him up (YouTubers and influencers) also saw similar legal actions
Often times, you know a proposal doesn't work, and yet you don't have chops to implement a better a solution. In that case, keeping quiet is the best solution; otherwise, you just make enemies.
I think is to take advantages of tax loopholes and deductions are the main reason they keep the non-profit. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
at this level of wealth the philantropism "incentives" must be bigger than the "money" given away.
My understanding is the firm operating the car is liable, in the full self driving case of commercial vehicles (waymo). The driver is liable in supervised self driving cases (privately owned Tesla)
Are we ready for the ethical challenges of AI and robots?
Xi Jinping without a doubt.

Arguably followed by other dictators like Putin, and backdoor political operators like Peter Thiel.

Trump and Musk would be somewhere in the top 20, maybe.
This is just a step toward offline support. It's not available yet, because Android comes first.

The app is ready for offline use, but I don't want to implement it without 'full text search.'
I plan to use SQLite FTS5.
My initial tests with search show that offline search is storage-expensive, which could be problematic for mobile devices.
So, the edge cases have started to appear. But it's the most requested feature, and the most interesting/challenging to me :)
Standard LLM quadratic attention isn't an approximation, it's perfect recall. Approaches that compress that memory down into a fixed-size state are an approximation, and generally perform worse, that's why linear transformers aren't widely used.
It should be co-equal to the freedom of association, not foundational, as that would deprive us of liberty. As Mills pointed out in "On Liberty" at https://gutenberg.org/files/34901/34901-h/34901-h.htm :

> We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavourable opinion of any one, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. We are not bound, for example, to seek his society; we have a right to avoid it (though not to parade the avoidance), for we have a right to choose the society most acceptable to us. We have a right, and it may be our duty, to caution others against him, if we think his example or conversation likely to have a pernicious effect on those with whom he associates. We may give others a preference over him in optional good offices, except those which tend to his improvement.
Is that actually him posting on Reddit?

It reads like a satirical take on his behaviour.
Search through the whole documentation, not just current page.
Is it so clear that it's a question of statics? Knots are often tied in dynamic rope (static rope will lose much more strength around a tight bend radius) and if you look at break-testing youtubers like HowNot2 the knots move a lot while they are being broken. A knot that's taken to almost breaking loads looks very different to the original knot in most cases.

My impression is that a common failure mode is the rope cutting through itself, which comes down to dynamic friction and the resulting heat I think.
I would imagine there are many superior products but it's the inertia of Wordpress that can't be defeated. Same with Reddit, etc. When network effects reach their highest level they really work against us.
At first I was confused by this "Made from Manila folders" which I didn’t know; I thought these folders were some kind of information from something that happened in Manila, and that the author did the scale model based on what he had found in them
Your entire argument boils down to your personal bias against ECS, and the one game that we tout for Bevy success uses: drum roll please. Bevy's ECS. Let's not pretend you think this is an informed decision, you think ECS is objectively worse. You would never suggest someone choose Bevy, and on reddit you actively talk about how ECS is bad. You're biased against it, plain and simple.
Especially in large organizations, you'll typically end up with more interesting/rewarding work if you help define it, than if you wait until something is handed to you.
It should say Wordpress co-founder and professional troll…. LOL
Perhaps they were from cases that had a confirmed diagnosis.
It was clearly a mistake because people start attempting to make totally incoherent comparisons to rat brains.
Speaking as someone who has dealt professionally with several dozens of suicides and hundreds of attempts, as a paramedic, I'd like to add the following notes of caution:

It's very easy to claim that your mental health emergency was an "accident" or "overreaction", and so forth. "No, I'm not really suicidal, I just lost myself for a moment or got overwhelmed. Everything is fine now/I'm going to see someone to help me cope/get the help I need/I was never -actually- suicidal"... and then commit suicide in very short order.

Denial is a stage of grief. I have had many family members tell me to be careful when responding to their loved ones, "because it's a crime scene" or similar, "because they've never shown any mental health issues", "would never do this to themselves", "would never do it to those they loved" that... go on to be ruled suicide.

I'm not saying anything about this particular case, but it's very easy to see a smoking gun when you're predisposed to it (and I'm not someone who is a particular fan of OpenAI/SamA, etc., hardly a defender).
Try a less touristy areas though, or people you don't normally interact with much (who will, conversely, also not have much experience interacting with non-Dutch people). My grandma couldn't say more than yes or no and understand not much more

Working an IT job in a company of ~30 employees, someone joined who didn't speak Dutch. They would always excuse themselves and have lunch in their office¹ because it was very obvious that half the people just didn't really interact with the previously lively conversation anymore and were just biding their time to get back to work. Those who did speak, it worked but it's not as jovial as before. Sure, these people can all hold a presentation about their field of work, or order a sandwich with the correct words in England, but a spontaneous conversation about something random? It's a different set of vocabulary that you need every day, and far from everyone has that

¹ yes, we made clear they shouldn't do that and they should feel invited and part of the team. Many people did interact. And many of us made sure they were, at least, not having lunch alone in their office. Situation unfortunately remained as it was until I left
We'd put people who hallucinate as often as LLMs into institutions, yet for some reason we seem to want to replace human beings with LLMs as much as possible.
I'm wondering the same thing. I paid for Bench through Freshbooks, who said they'll be offering refunds for services not rendered. If they didn't get back to me with this, I was going to dispute the charge with my credit card company. If you paid by CC, you could try that.
They are more of a black box - but humans are a black box that is perhaps more studied and that we have more experience in.

Although human behavior is still weird, and highly fallable! Despite best interventions (therapy, drugs, education), sometimes they still kill each other and we aren't 100% sure why, or how to solve it.

That doesn't mean that the same level of study can't be done on AI though, and they are much easier to adjust compared to the human brain (RLHF is more effective than therapy or drugs!).
I got downvoted for suggesting this. Don’t know why HN is so quick to dismiss whistleblower deaths as coincidences
If you like the work of Denis Villeneuve and Chris Nolan like me I would really recommend Arrival, Inception, Interstellar and Tenet if you haven't seem them yet.

Without spoiling anything Arrival in particular is just mindblowing amazing IMO.
In my bubble coders find LLMs least useful. After all we already have all kinds of fancy autocomplete that works deterministically and doesn't hallucinate - and still not everyone uses it.

When I use LLMs, I use it exactly as Google search on steroids. It's great for providing a summary on some unknown topic. It doesn't matter if it gets it wrong - the main value is in keywords and project names, and one can use the real Google search from there.

And it isn't expensive if you are using the free version
I am not that familiar with them, and they may not allow blogging in minutes, but I believe systems like Drupal, TYPO3, and Joomla are in the ballpark of providing platforms as flexible as Wordpress.

I'd be very happy to hear from folks more familiar with these tools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPO3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla
Copyright is the right to get a return from creative work. The physical ease - or otherwise - of copying is absolutely irrelevant to this. So is scarcity.

It's also orthogonal to the current corporate dystopia which is using monopoly power to enclose the value of individual work from the other end - precisely by inserting itself into the process of physical distribution.

None of this matters if you have a true abundance economy, but we don't. Pretending we do for purely selfish reasons - "I want this, and I don't see why I should pay the creator for it" - is no different to all the other ways that employers stiff their employees.

I don't mean it's analogous, I mean it's exactly the same entitled mindset which is having such a catastrophic effect on everything at the moment.
How is that different than leveraged RE? If the property value is flat, you’re in the red due to interest.
It's only a dead end if you bought the hype; it's actually useful! Just not all-powerful.
> With zero knowledge of how well-equipped the Russian military is, could they really be so far behind that they're unable to determine the difference between an commercial airlines and a high-speed missile?

In a quick decision, in a high-stress scenario during an actual attack, possibly. Even if they have the capacity to make that decision correctly otherwise, every system—including the human element—is fallible, and procedures in those circumstances are likely to err on the side of safety-from-attack, rather than safety-for-potential-attacker.

(OTOH, the rerouting of the plane afterward was clearly intentional murder with the hope it would help cover up the shooting incident, whether or not the shooting itself was an accident.)
Succumbing to conspiracism is a surprisingly common response to grief. Being egged on by folk Twitter, who clearly do not know any better, won’t have helped.

Hopefully the autopsy will bring them some kind of closure.
Not yet. But not necessarily never...
It's the same account behind an old verified AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1jg781/i_am_matt_mull... so it's his account definitely.
Superior products; that cost more money or require a programmer.

WordPress is $5 in a VPS, click a theme, add a few plugins, it’s an insecure mess but it was cheap. Need a designer? A few thousand bucks is cheaper than a programmer.

It’s not the network effects. It’s about doing things cheap and fast, for which WordPress has no parallel.

And no, this is not a problem with capitalism. Every social structure ever devised has done this. Even if you’re McDonalds and you want new marketing pages in 2 weeks for a 1 week campaign, WordPress is fine. What else are you going to do? Build a CI/CD pipeline for a 1 week website?
Your website doesn't mention tax filing. Is this a new offering or am I missing it somewhere?
Are you sure it's still true if you limit to Russia? 1/3 of the deaths came from Iran, for example
My 2 cents:

I think the vector representation stuff is an effective tool and possibly similar to foundational tools that humans are using.

But my gut feel is that it's just one tool of many that combine to give humans a model+view of the world with some level of visibility into the "correctness" of ideas about that world.

Meaning we have a sense of whether new info "adds up" or not, and we may reject the info or adjust our model.

I think LLM's in their current state can be useful for tasks that do not have a high cost resulting from incorrect output, or tasks that can have their output validated by humans or some other system cost-effectively.
They cannot provide information that is 100.0% accurate to the source where there is NO acceptable amount of hallucination; talking legal, compliance, etc.

They’re so so bad at saying “I don’t know” or “no results”. They’re still sycophants.
i actually disagree with this philosophy. If you are a small business and you co market or collaborate with another and have no idea about their ethics should you see legal action for them being illicit in any way? How would a youtuber be able to audit and actually get enough information to determine a massive company wasn't above board.
I couldn't care less about their structure but the level of effort to put a positive spin on it makes the whole thing look more sketchy rather than less.
Wow. We need an alternative to Intuit.
Same here but within a few weeks :)
Sweet! They're 3% of the way there!

And as long as continued sell-offs don't tank the value of the meme-coin, of course, they're on track to make it to 100%.
It might sound fun to 'have' $10bn but consider losing your family, knowing that every person you meet is after your money (because they are), not having anyone give you responsible feedback, spending large amounts of time dealing with lawyers and accountants and finance bros, and basically never being 'normal' again. Winning a huge amount of money in a lottery carries a huge chance of ruining your life.

There's a limit to the amount of money I'd want (or could even use), and it's well below $10b. If someone came around with $10m and an honest deal and someone else offered $10b to buy the morality in my left toe, I'd take the $10m without question.
O1 pro.

The "thinking" part explains it seems to be about a custom web server, and tries to think what ggh might be, saying maybe something like "go gprc hub" and it needs more info. The response is:

I’m not aware of a standard product called “Salinero webserver” or a documented feature called “ggh connections.” Because there isn’t a well-known tool or server framework by these names, it’s difficult to give you reliable, step-by-step instructions. Could you clarify any of the following?

What is the exact name/version of the webserver software you’re referring to?

What do you mean by “ggh connections”? Is this a plugin, a protocol, or some other third-party module?

Is there any related documentation or logs you can share?

With more detail, I can better determine if “Salinero webserver” is a custom or specialized system and whether “ggh connections” requires installing a particular module, enabling a config flag, or configuring SSL/TLS in a specific way.
Hence the term "cruise", which in every other context means not traveling especially fast.
CDC says H5N1 sample shows mutations that may help virus bind to upper airways
Neurons also adjust the signal strength based on previous stimuli, which in effect makes the future response weighted. So it is not far off—albeit a gross simplification—to call the brain a weight matrix.

As I learned it, artificial neural networks were modeled after a simple model for the brain. The early (successful) models were almost all reinforcement models, which is also one of the most successful model for animal (including human) learning.
if you're going to tell people to buy stuff, make sure its legit stuff before advertising it.

Youtubers aren't indie anymore, they're businesses.